Anne Sexton Poems

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71.
Rumpelstiltskin

Inside many of us
is a small old man
who wants to get out.
No bigger than a two-year-old
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72.
Just Once

Just once I knew what life was for.
In Boston, quite suddenly, I understood;
walked there along the Charles River,
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73.
The Doctor Of The Heart

Take away your knowledge, Doktor.
It doesn't butter me up.
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74.
Where It Was At Back Then

Husband,
last night I dreamt
they cut off your hands and feet.
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75.
The Civil War

I am torn in two
but I will conquer myself.
I will dig up the pride.
I will take scissors
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76.
Love Letter Written In A Burning Building

I am in a crate, the crate that was ours,
full of white shirts and salad greens,
the icebox knocking at our delectable knocks,
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77.
For The Year Of The Insane

A prayer

O Mary, fragile mother,
hear me, hear me now
although I do not know your words.
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78.
The Room Of My Life

Here,
in the room of my life
the objects keep changing.
Ashtrays to cry into,
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79.
Us

I was wrapped in black
fur and white fur and
you undid me and then
you placed me in gold light
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80.
Earthworm

Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep
you are reworking their soil, you have
a grocery store there down under the earth
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